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Three years ago I was staying at an old but quite luxurious hotel in Essex. I had a room with a very high ceiling. Middle of the night, the room is pitch black and I'm wide awake because there's a baby crying very loudly. It sounds like it's coming from the room above mine. I just roll around in bed being all annoyed for a bit, until I realize that I'm staying in a room on the top floor. I start to freak out a little and the crying gets louder and louder. It sounds a lot clearer now, as if the baby is in the same room with me, but the sound is still coming from the direction of the ceiling. I'm lying in bed in full blown panic now, too afraid to get up out of bed. Then the crying stops abruptly.

It was completely quiet for a moment. Then I felt a baby sized hand grab my wrist.

I almost flung myself out of bed in horror and turned on the light. There was nothing there. This might just be the scariest experience in my entire life and I'm still incredibly glad that I only had to stay in that hotel for one night.

I didn't, I was afraid they wouldn't believe me and that I'd end up making a fool of myself (social anxiety is a bitch). In hindsight I wish I asked them about it. I wonder if other guests have had similar experiences.

I feel like you should bite the bullet, call the hotel and ask to talk to a staff member that has worked there the longest, then explain the strange thing that happened and ask if they could please say if they knew of anything like that ever happening. I’d love to know their response. Nothing to lose.

i 100% believe that what you experienced felt as real. That's because i also had sleep paralysis 'attacks' where i believed i was awake, where i believed i was turning over / moving around (while physically still being in bed, well problably, i can genuinly not remember but i assume i was paralysed and the part of my memory where it made me believe i was moving around was half overwritten by a dreamlike state). Also i have heard things, felt things in my neck, heard my mom (who lives in another country).